The three state-owned companies had earlier said Air India owed Rs 5,000 crore of unpaid fuel bills to them, and that it had not paid fuel bills for the past eight months, forcing them to snap supplies

Maruti Suzuki plans to make its entire small car portfolio available in compressed natural gas (CNG) variants. It is looking at the CNG option to fill the space currently occupied by diesel cars, which it intends to stop selling by April 2020.

Gold price hike: The uncertainty on the US-China tariff war front, volatile oil market, murmurs of a recession, weak rupee and foreign funds outflow from India have all fuelled demand for this safe haven asset.